(The parents "routinely" opened their children's letters, for example, well into their adulthood).
However, for years in their adulthood, Nickolai and Amaktoolik lived on the streets of Anchorage, Alaska's largest city.
Hatched in freshwater streams, the salmon swim dozens of miles toward the sea, where they spend their adulthood.
Once they start to come into their adulthood they start to feel their oats, then, all of a sudden, it's a different story".
He went on: "Reading fairy tales at an early age gave many people I talked to a sense of reassurance and sanctuary that continues into their adulthood".
Children start with dance competitions in primary school and continue with their one-upmanship on the dance floor in nightclubs and weddings into their adulthood.
It will serve them well when drawing connections and relationships from 9/11 to unimaginable events that occur in their adulthood.
Will this generation of iPod-wielding, Starbucks-sipping, trenchcoat-wearing smallies be able to distinguish their childhood from their adulthood at all?
Even in their adulthood, especially in their adulthood, our children's birthdays give us legitimate reasons to weep sentimental tears as we relive the moments when they were first placed in our outstretched arms and we lament the breakneck speed at which time passes.
Even in some more conservative regions homosexual act between teenage boys is seen as the 'safer' way of exploring sexuality; so long they get married at their adulthood, no one cares much.
We've added so many greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, for our generation's growth, that our kids are likely going to spend a good part of their adulthood, maybe all of it, just dealing with the climate implications of our profligacy.
